(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 22-Oct-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, announces the three finalists to the ‘Open Innovation Challenge’, a global competition aimed at identifying new technologies to benefit crew safety, health and wellbeing … Read the full press release
Posted in Healthcare, Industrial, News, Security & Safety, Small Business, Technology, Telecom, Transportation & Logistics, United Kingdom
Tagged Competition, crew health, crew safety, crew welfare, Inmarsat, Innovation Challenge, ISWAN, mobile satellite communications, Nick Chubb, Ronald Spithout, Shell Shipping & Maritime, SME, start-up, Thetius, ‘Open Innovation Challenge’
(PRESS RELEASE) MILAN/LONDON, 19-Nov-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — UniCredit announces 8 new companies joining the UniCredit ELITE CEE Lounge today. ELITE and UniCredit established UniCredit CEE Lounge to leverage the London Stock Exchange Group’s ELITE platform to support the growth of … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Bulgaria, Business, Croatia, Financial, Hungary, Investment, Italy, News, Romania, Small Business, United Kingdom
Tagged Andrea Diamanti, ELITE, Investment Banking, London Stock Exchange Group, Luca Peyrano, private banking, SME, UNICREDIT, UniCredit CEE Lounge, UniCredit ELITE CEE Lounge
(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 11-Sep-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — EBRD and Crédit Agricole Romania sign €20 million loan, in Romanian lei equivalent, to help support local micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), a vital sector of Romania’s economy in terms of wealth … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, Investment, News, Romania, Small Business, United Kingdom
Tagged agribusiness, banks, Crédit Agricole Romania, EBRD, Emporiki Bank, loan, MSME, Romania, SME
Business insurance specialist QBE has further expanded its SME product distribution by launching Office insurance on Open GI’s commercial platform, Powerplace. WORCESTER, 27-Nov-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The launch will see the product available across all Open GI broker platforms including Mobius … Read the full press release
Posted in Insurance, Management, Small Business, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged commercial platform, Corinne Pringle, David Kelly, insurance, Open GI, Powerplace, QBE, SME
Business sentiment of small and medium-sized enterprises continues to improve Large enterprises are also more optimistic Robust upswing, but many risks remain Frankfurt am Main, 11-Sep-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — With the recent truce in the trade conflict between the US and … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Economy, Germany, Government, International Trade, Small Business
Tagged business_climate, Doctor Jörg Zeuner, German SMEs, KfW, SME, SMEs, trade, trade conflict
LONDON, 06-Aug-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Barclays has today announced that it is partnering with leading fintech business MarketInvoice, Europe’s largest online invoice financing platform, in a deal that is set to transform the way small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, Investment, Management, Small Business, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Anil Stocker, Barclays, fintech, Ian Rand, MarketInvoice, SME
SME business climate drops moderately as expectations decline But SMEs still rate their current situation better than ever Large enterprises are clearly less optimistic Growth rate is on the way back to normality Frankfurt am Main, 09-Mar-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — After … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, Small Business
Tagged business climate, Dr Jörg Zeuner, economy, GROWTH, KfW, SME, SME Barometer
Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) will begin offering export credits for small-scale projects with environmental benefits in Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus. The export credits are intended for Nordic companies export deliveries valued at EUR 0.5-5 million. Nordic export credit … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Finland, International Trade, Investment, Russia, Ukraine
Tagged BELARUS, Eeva-Maija Pietikäinen, environmentally-friendly projects, export credit guarantees, export credits, export financing, exporters, Finnish exporter, Finnvera plc, Kari Homanen, Maria Maliniemi, NEFCO, Nordic Environment Finance Corporation, Nordic export credit agencies, Otto Lindstedt, RUSSIA, SME, UKRAINE
Finland, 21-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Finnvera launched on 8 October 2013 a SEK 2 billion (approx. EUR 230 million) floating rate note maturing in August 2018. The note was issued under the company’s EMTN (Euro Medium Term Note) programme. Finnvera’s EMTN programme … Read the full press release
New SME credit helps small firms gain access to finance 20-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The EBRD reached out to small Romanian companies on Monday during a week when EBRD President Sir Suma Chakrabarti’s first visit to the country underscored the Bank’s … Read the full press release
Amman, Jordan, 27-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, the European Investment Bank (EIB), Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and the European Commission through the Neighborhood Investment Facility (NIF) are working together to provide funding for … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, European Union, Financial, Investment, Luxembourg, Small Business
Tagged AFD, Agence Française de Développement, Amman, Dimitris Tsitsiragos, EIB, European Commission, European Investment Bank, finance for small businesses, funding, Hervé Breton, IFC, JORDAN, MENA, Middle East and North Africa, Neighborhood Investment Facility, Philippe de Fontaine Vive, small businesses, SME, SMEs
Brussels, 28-11-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Today, the European Commission outlined a series of actions to tackle marketing scams, such as those of misleading directory companies. The aim is to better protect businesses, professionals and NGOs across Europe from dishonest traders who … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, European Union, Government, Law, Marketing, Small Business
Brussels, 22-10-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Women’s entrepreneurial potential is underexploited and the EU needs more women entrepreneurs to create growth and new jobs. This was the main message of today’s European SME Week Summit in Brussels which focuses on encouraging women to … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, European Union, Small Business, Society
Il Vicepresidente della Commissione europea Antonio Tajani inaugura la Settimana delle PMI e del Mercato unico Sala della Protomoteca, Campidoglio/Roma, 18-10-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — INTRODUZIONE Il Nobel attribuito all’Unione europea è un riconoscimento alla pace e alla prosperità realizzata con oltre sessant’anni … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, European Union, Italy, Small Business
18-10-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — The Commission annually assesses progress in implementation of the Small Business Act (SBA)1 at national level. This memo describes the results of the assessment as illustrated by country specific SBA factsheets2, composed on the basis of a wide … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Business, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Economy, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Small Business, Society, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
17-10-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Europe’s Small and Medium Sized enterprises (SMEs) continue to strive for recovery. If we take the EU as a whole so far their overall efforts have mainly led to ‘jobless’ growth, as shown by diverging trends in … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, European Union, Government, Small Business, Society